Posted by -ADDED TO THE GAME-[ALL] Hire a Writer (please.) (+250)

Nyanunix (#11487)

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2018-04-14 15:38:17
Pretty simple suggestion. I've noticed, as a writer, that Lioden's events are . . . Badly written. Not to be rude to whoever's doing it, but I'm not wrong; as someone who writes professionally it hurts my heart.

Other sites have paid writers that do dialogue, wiki pages, everything. I know because that's what I do. It's not as expensive as one might think and a big site like LD could afford it.

I think that there needs to be someone hired to write storylines for the events.

If you support, great, if you don't, whatever.



This suggestion has 559 supports and 43 NO supports.



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Edited on 23/07/19 @ 19:11:00 by a Moderator

Chieftains (#37687)

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2018-05-01 20:08:18
As, I just saw your own edit, Asher. Having writers be more in-depth explanations on the wiki counts for this, then yeah, sure I can agree to that. That could extend to item descriptions too, since things like Egg Yolks or Honeycomb don't really describe what they do. But I think it still stands that it just takes a few days of adjustment to figure how each event works, and newbies in chat not knowing what to do is always bound to happen, even if there's a detailed explanation on the event. People don't like to read or search for answers themselves, unfortunately. xD



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Bezthiel 🍉 (#81210)

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2018-05-01 20:17:36
There are quite a few items on the site that don't actually explain what they do. For instance the item "Antelope Hoof" which just says "a rotting antelope hoof". Well... thanks. No shit, Sherlock. What do I do with it? (It's useless, you vend it, btw, for anyone that doesn't know.)

Compare this to the also-useless item "Bottle" which states, very clearly "it's a weird useless thing".

The second one has a much clearer item description. It tells you it's useless. That makes it objectively a better item description.

Worse, we've also got Coconut and Broken Drone all over the place (two items that do exactly the same thing). "A coconut, to give to your lion to crack it open! It gives some EXP!" vs "African wildlife control flying drones tend to crash during storms. Maybe your lion could crack it open to see what's inside?" It's the reason so many people ask "hey, what do broken drones do?" but almost no one asks "hey, what does this coconut do?"

Having any of the current staff go through and update the descriptions on items like "antelope hoof" to say "a useless rotting antelope hoof" is, frankly, a complete and utter waste of their time. I am very sure that all of Lioden's current, paid staff has much better things to be doing with their time.



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Edited on 01/05/18 @ 20:22:39 by Bezthiel #ShrikeHoarder (#81210)

🅱️oneless (#123346)


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Posted on
2018-05-02 10:34:06
Also, things like this.



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Edited on 02/05/18 @ 15:38:30 by Asher (#123346)

Archangel (#136725)


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2018-05-20 17:05:19
Even if it's not a full time writer, at least an editor to go over the grammar/spelling issues



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Sol (#146730)

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2018-05-28 18:15:41
(This have to do about "What or why did the character flirts with us")
About the Nirah thing, I read the wiki and oh gosh forgive me but I didn't get bothered by Nirah bc he's so pretty (at all, some of his line was waaay to weird), but I do agree that he shouldn't be flirting all the time and that gave me an idea: Some answers may lead that the character should flirt or not, like

Want to flirt (not writing this of course, but u get it): Oh, that should be a pretty good idea! Also, what about hanging out more? *and he/she may be more close or flirting with you*

Neutral/Not wanting flirt: That's a cool idea. It was nice talking to you, but I gotta go. Bye! *he/she got that you don't want that*

And if you choose the flirting but you actually didn't wanted to, the next answer you cant put the not flirting.
And every that that we start a new chapter, back to neutral. No feelings, but as soon as we push to flirt, they may get back to flirt/start where it was left.
I don't even know if this is possible. But it sounded cool?

If you don't like it, I'm also 100% in the idea about the character just DON'T flirt you at all dljthegk



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Edited on 28/05/18 @ 18:34:06 by Jade Skylight (#146730)

Kit (#145466)

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2018-05-31 21:08:09
Oh man, YEAH... my girlfriend and I were just talking about this the other night.
Grammar and syntax is easy to correct, just time-consuming; the actual storylines themselves is what we gripe about.
One thing that I haven't seen talked about is the wildly conflicting themes, tones, and urgencies of each event. Here, I'll give an example:
-May event: hehe, you get to fight with some lions and help two bros hug it out <3
-June event (yes i'm aware that this is scrapped but the new event has us dealing with literal gods so it still stands): EVERYTHING IS FLOODING AND YOURE DYING.
It honestly feels like Lioden can't choose what it wants to be- does it want to be serious? Does it want to be silly? Are there literally different planes crashing, fighting, and dying, or are the events basically just a lighthearted game of tag with 12 different NPCs?
My suggestion is - they can do both! Both is absolutely doable and, if done correctly, would be the most fun option out of all of them. And, obviously, it can vary each month, but not so much so that I literally cannot answer the above questions.
While I admit that I don't have too many ideas myself, *that's what the writers are for*! A more serious/lighthearted subplot would honestly really help to balance out the mood of the entire game itself.



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Ripley Believe It or
not (#119237)

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2018-06-01 02:01:55
The events are a little... cliche and lacking but I manage to enjoy them. Maybe it's just me not really caring about the stories and more for the goodies haha. I support :)



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Mako-Shark (#96030)


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2018-06-17 10:11:20
A professional writer for this site would be a godsend! Like most users in this thread pointed out, Lioden's writing isn't exactly the best and sometimes difficult to understand because of either glaring grammatical errors to just poor word choice in general. Also I would definitely love to see the events getting spiced up with interesting plots and story arcs.



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Katria (#10311)

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Posted on
2018-08-21 16:27:21
I support and volenteer for proofreading! Sometimes all you need is anothwr set of eyes over it.

Plus I love this site so much.



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Gutsy (#3097)


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Posted on
2018-08-21 17:37:30
A dedicated writer would also have much more time than the current staff to come up with plot devices, interesting stories, and really engage the player, etc., so I support!



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🅱️oneless (#123346)


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2018-09-18 16:56:10
Okay, I'm back to show my support for this.

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My friends and I spent too much time mulling over what the hell this meant. Phrased so uncomfortably and awkwardly.



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No Mercy (#133577)


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Posted on
2018-10-01 15:42:04
I want to unmeet Nirah



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harvest 🌲🍊 (#130338)

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Posted on
2018-10-01 15:45:16
/Please/
I was just thinking about this earlier tbh while reading through the storylines. Characters definitely need new modeling; they're all just.. flat/static, with little to offer the reader other than a few cliches and a poor personality, and the storylines just don't catch much attention. Nothing against whoever writes them, of course, but they could definitely need some professional reworking.
Full support ❤️



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Slyxeate (#154373)

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Posted on
2018-10-01 16:00:29
I whole heartily agree with this. Lioden needs a professional writer.

On a complete side note - sorta - I'm actually okay with how flirty Nirah is. It doesn't bother me at all.



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[△] Nadir (#108458)

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2018-10-01 16:39:15
I started to re-write September's storyline myself for the fuck of it. First chapter is done, and in doing this, goddamn I have come to realize how much they missed out on with Harbinger's shit. He could have been made properly menacing. they had so much they could have done.



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